A month on from the US Presidential Election and Barack Obama is preparing to move into the White House.

Meanwhile senior Republican party leaders are trying to figure out what went wrong.

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Carly Fiorina on Sarah Palin and the future of the Republican Party

One senior adviser to the Republican campaign, Carly Fiorina, made her name as the first woman to run one of America's top companies.

Stephen Sackur asks her how she would turn around the troubled Republican party.

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